! Metal Gear Solid V Save File Corruption Bug Spotted

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If you’ve been playing Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain [official site] for a bit, you may have joined up with superfast sunbathing sniper Quiet. Folks warn you that she’s trouble and heck, it seems she is. Publishers Konami have warned that she may corrupt save games on certain missions, and are warning folks until they can fix it. Read on for details because I feel I’ve already spoiled too much in this post and know I thought “Oh huh!” when I saw a tiny insignificant detail in the announcement.

Konami explain on their support site, “there is a possibility that save data may get corrupted and becomes unusable if having Quiet as a buddy while playing ‘Mission 29’ or ‘Mission 42’. This situation can be avoided by not using Quiet as a buddy while playing either ‘Mission 29’ or ‘Mission 42’.” This affects the game on all platforms.

“We deeply apologize, and appreciate your patience for further announcements regarding this issue,” they say.

My response was: coo, it’s got a minimum of 42 missions? That’s… is that more than I was expecting? It’s nice. I’m very excited to explore those missions. We had a big old 90-minute chat about The Phantom Pain today, and (almost) everything I see and read and play and say makes me want more. I look forward to getting to know Quiet better.

I am usually relatively immune to such things, but this was made in such distasteful way I had to take a break after the mission. Camera kept zooming on the boob, and in the prison she is lying on the stomach with her bra unknoted.

They could simply have named her “quiet” and have her in yellow desert fatigue. But no she got to be in underwear. This is pure fan service. And frankly I find it more vile than in other games.

“explanations” of not wearing sensible clothes, are sure you don’t mean “excuses”?

It’s not that I’m uncomfortable with naked/nearly-naked women, it’s more like I’m annoyed with the MGS series for following the idiot tropes of ecchi anime in what would otherwise be an engaging, immersive experience.

Clearly Hideo Kojima has not seen any “Tropes vs. Women” videos, or simply doesn’t care about their critique.

Actually while in japan and japanese games you often see absurdly sized breasts, their is often a plethora of strong female characters. In previous MGS games you had Sniper Wolf and the Boss who were both sexy and strong.

And Quiet is clearly a strong woman although it’s a weak character in the game so far, she wouldn’t fit in the tropes vs women thingy as she is clearly more powerful and capable than the male macho hero.

As a side note, it’s a common trope in anime and japanese media to have a weak lead male character to highlight the strong personality of the female characters.

Even though Quiet is pure fanservice, as a player you have the option of cladding Snake in form-fitting sneaking suits or having him run around bare-chested, upping the manservice side.

While not completely egalitarian, that’s more than many games do, forcing sensible/badass outfits on men and skimpy clothes on women, with no choice whatsoever.

As for Sniper Wolf and The Boss, both of them had gratuitous cleavage (the latter during the final battle, though). Meryl’s about the only one who dressed completely sensibly. More sensibly than Raiden, to be sure.

@Distec: Go back and read the Dead or Alive 5 posts on RPS, and see how many people complained about fan service.

The thing is, if you want to include wank material, be honest about it. Don’t try to dress it up with plot excuses or as some kind of ‘commentary’. I mean, next what? Quiet shoves her arse up your face because if she doesn’t limber up regularly she dies?

For the explanation of her nakedness to make sense, the geriatric sniper and fellow photosynthesizer The End would have had to be naked as well. Which I’m sure no one was rushing to advocate for in defense of versimilitude

Alas, it’s kind of addressed. It’s strongly implied that The End was able to ‘photosynthesise’ due to his suit (Snake can do the same while wearing it), whereas Quiet’s abilities come from something very different and spoilerful.

It’s even more jarring when you compare how that character actually later interacts on a mission.

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When she sits on a mountain somewhere and a green laser pointer picks at enemy’s head, and the radio clicks and you hear her humming that tiny song.

She’s incredibly hardcore, an the inconsistency in the writing, between fan-service and the awesomeness of what lurks beneath the oversized jiggly boobs and strings makes it really hard to ignore. It’s a fictional character, but it feels almost surprising the fictional character didn’t shoot someone’s real head right off from the screen for that stuff.

BTW, I kinda feel fine when large plot twists get spoiled, but tiny smaller moments where the things feel unreal before the world snaps into place again, those I wouldn’t like to lose.

Am I the only one who sees it as a commentary of the state of females in video games? (Spoilers I guess, but minimal I think?)

Literally you have a female character who can only exist in a video game because she’s nearly naked. On top of that she’s sort of inheriently objectified because she can’t communicate much, but my understanding is that’s subverted a bit by giving her actual personality and characterization.

That totally reads to me like a commentary on what it takes for female games to exist in mainstream games and commentary on their objectification. Though I have no doubt it’s mixed with a bunch of fan service as well.

Now I haven’t really played MGS5 so I don’t know how consistent that message it, how well it’s done, or if it’s even worth saying, but the characterization of Quiet seems more self-aware than “make sexy female character then use lame excuse to justify it” even if the attempt doesn’t work or is problematic.

That would at least make more sense than the pantyhose thing. I mean, I get it, they’re playing her as something sociopathic or some sort of autism or severe trauma that made her either not be aware or ignore other people’s reaction (positive or not), but even if I bought the “story”, what she wears makes less sense than plain nothing.

You seem to be under the impression that I only refer to the fact that she doesn’t talk (until she does, which is the smallest surprise ever, and I hope nobody who could be spoilt reaches here). I’m not, and silence is really the least of the issues here. Of course there is some later some crap contrarian to this, b/c I doubt Kojima really knew what he’s writing there, but that’s what’s happening in the story.

People who are trying to compare Quiet and Raiden are starting to get annoying. Raiden being naked in the Arsenal Gear chapter was meant to signify his “rebirth”. By finding out about the Patriot A.I., the Big Shell attack being staged, Rosemary being a spy, and by becoming his own person. Raiden was “reborn”. That’s why he was naked for that part. If you want to argue about him being objectified then fine! But you’d be making a very weak argument against very obvious symbolism. Meanwhile, Quiet is dressed in a bikini because of some stupid parasite bullshit. They’re not comparable contexts!